Zafar Abbas Malik is the art director of Arts and the Islamic World.

Iwona Abrams is a graduate of the Krakow Academy of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art in London.

Richard Appignanesi is a novelist, editor and publisher, and a Research Fellow at King’s College London. He is the originating editor of the Introducing series and has written books on Freud, postmodernism and existentialism in the series.

Bruce Bassett is a cosmologist and lecturer at the University of Cape Town and the South African Astronomical Observatory.

Nigel C. Benson is a lecturer in Philosophy and Psychology at Barnfield College, Luton.

Judy Boreham is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and now works as a freelance illustrator in Cambridge.

Henry Brighton is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where he explores cognition-inspired approaches to Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the university of Edinburgh, and a research scientist at SHARP Laboratories of Europe, Oxford.

Craig Callender is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in philosophy, physics and law journals.

Paul Cobley is Senior Lecturer in Communications at London Guildhall University.

Jeff Collins read Art History at the University of Leeds and is currently Lecturer in Art History at the University of Plymouth.

Robert Crumb is the creator of Fritz the Cat, Mr Natural and other legendary cartoon figures. He is one of the pioneers of American underground comics and his work has been celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Dan Cryan is a graduate of Philosophy from University College London.

Ralph Edney trained as a mathematician, and has worked as a teacher, journalist, illustrator and political cartoonist. He has illustrated a number of Introducing titles.

Dylan Evans is Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Autonomous Systems at the University of the West of England. He is also the author of Placebo (HarperCollins, 2003) and Emotion (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Laurence Gane read Philosophy at University College London and Kings College, London. He teaches at the Royal College of Art and lives in Snowdonia, Wales.

Chris Garratt is an illustrator. He is the cartoonist behind the legendary “Biff” comic strip in the Guardian.

Angus Gellatly is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Open University. He has previously taught at Sussex University and Keele University where he was Head of Department from 1992 to 2000.

Judy Groves is a painter, graphic designer and illustrator. She has illustrated numerous books in the Introducing series including Philosophy, Chomsky and Wittgenstein.

Duncan Heath read English at Oxford University and now works as a writer and editor.

John M. Heaton is a psychotherapist and was a colleague of R.D. Laing. He studied natural and moral sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, attending lectures by Bertrand Russell.

Robert Hinshelwood is a psychoanalyst and Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital in London. He founded the British Journal of Psychotherapy. His other books include A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought and Clinical Klein.

Jane Hope is a practising Vajrayana Buddhist and has taught Buddhism extensively through Europe and North America. She has also worked as a bereavement counsellor.

Chris Horrocks is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Design at Kingston University.

Maggie Hyde is a writer, lecturer and journalist and a consultant astrologer.

Litza Jansz is an acclaimed illustrator and designer and a television producer and director.

Cathia Jenainati is Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick (England). She teaches courses on American and Canadian literature and feminist literary theory.

Zoran Jevtic is an artist, commercial illustrator and animator.

Andrzej Klimowski is an award-winning designer and illustrator and the author of two highly acclaimed graphic novels, The Depository and The Secret.

Andrzej Krauze is a cartoonist and illustrator whose work is published regularly in the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Sunday Telegraph.

Christopher Kul-Want is an art historian and philosopher. He is Course Director of the MA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London.

Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London. His hugely renowned popular science books include Almost Like a Whale and The Language of the Genes.

Alain Korkos was born in 1955 in Paris. He lives there still, and works for many French publishers, as an author of novels and an illustrator for children and teenagers. He also writes newspaper articles about art history..

Vinay Lal teaches at UCLA. He writes widely on Indian history, contemporary politics, Bollywood and the Indian diaspora. Recent books include The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London. He is the author of Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? (1996), Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late (1998), Freud’s Footnotes (2000) and Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing (2002), all published by Faber & Faber.

Nigel Lesmoir-Gorden is a producer of television documentaries.

John Maher is Professor of Linguistics at the International Christian University in Tokyo.

David Zane Mairowitz's plays for radio are produced in over twenty countries, and his radiophonic opera, The Voluptuous Tango, won the Prix Italia Special Prize and the Sony Prize in 1997. Another play, In the Crocodile Swamp, won the Prix Europa in 2005.

Bill Mayblin trained as a graphic designer at the Royal College of Art in London, and is now a senior partner in the London design practice the Information Design Workshop.

J.P. McEvoy is a former research scientist and is now a science journalist.

Michael McGuiness is an acclaimed artist and illustrator and a former art editor of the Readers’ Digest and the Sunday Times. His illustrations appear regularly throughout the media, including the New Statesman.

Jonathan Miller read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and subsequently qualified as a Doctor of Medicine in 1959. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer and a director of plays and operas.

Richard Osborne teaches philosophy and cultural studies at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London.

David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London and has lectured at Reading, Birkbeck, Macquarie (Sydney) and Cambridge.

Piero is an illustrator and graphic designer whose work has twice been included in the Royal College of Art’s “The Best of British Illustration”. He has illustrated Shakespeare, Psychiatry, Anthropology, Barthes and Nietzsche in the Introducing series.

Felix Pirani is Emeritus Professor of Rational Mechanics in the University of London. He has published a number of scientific papers and popular articles about Einstein's theory of relativity, and three books for children. He was once attached to a group of cosmologists known as the Cambridge Circus.

William Rankin has worked in London for Oz and the Radio Times; in France for Actuel and Echo des Savanes; and in Sweden for Etc. and Dagens Nyheter. Born in Edinburgh, he now lives in Paris and works for a major newspaper.

Jerry Ravetz is a philosopher and mathematician. He pioneered the study of uncertainty and policy numbers in social and scientific issues at Leeds University.

Howard Read is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and is currently a freelance illustrator. He lives in London.

Rius is a legendary Mexican cartoonist.

Christine Roach is a cartoonist/illustrator who lives and works in London. She draws for various magazines and newspapers and has illustrated a number of books for both children and adults. She has produced several animated films (for C4, BBC, etc.) and lectures at the London College of Communication and other colleges.

Dave Robinson has taught philosophy for many years and has written Introducing guides to ethics, Rousseau, Kierkegaard, political philosophy and many others. He is now a part-time lecturer in Critical Studies and lives in Devon.

Susan Robinson began work as a psychosocial nurse at the Cassel Hospital in 1987, and since 1994 she has been the Head Nurse there.

Chris Rodrigues is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at the University of Plymouth where he runs an MA in Contemporary Film Practice. He has been involved with film studies in higher education and film-making in the independent sector over many years.

Will Rood read Mathematics at Cambridge University. His fractal animations have graced many television documentaries and his artwork has featured on numerous magazines, posters and CD sleeves.

Ziauddin Sardar is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at City University, London, co-author of the international bestsellers Why Do People Hate America? and American Dream, Global Nightmare (Icon, 2002, 2004) and a widely known author, journalist and critic.

Joseph Schwartz taught physics for many years at the City University of New York. He now lives in London.

Howard Selina studied painting at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal Academy in London, where he now lives and works.

Sharron Shatil is a lecturer in Philosophy.

Stuart Sim is Professor of Critical Theory in the English Department at the University of Sunderland. A Fellow of the English Association, his work has been translated into nine languages. He is the author of Fundamentalist World: The New Dark Age of Dogma (Icon, 2004).

Lloyd Spencer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media at Trinity and All Saints, a college of the University of Leeds. He is the author of an acclaimed biographical study of Walter Benjamin.

Philip Thody was Professor of French Literature and Head of Department of French at the University of Leeds until his retirement in 1993. He died in 1999.

R.L. Trask was a professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. A hugely acclaimed specialist in historical linguistics, his work on the Basque language made him among the world’s foremost authorities on the subject. He died in 2004.

Borin Van Loon is an illustrator, surrealist painter and collagist who produces the comic strip 'The Severed Head' for The Chap magazine.

Ivan Ward has a background in social sciences and anthropology. He is a lecturer at London Guildhall University and the Director of Education at the Freud Museum, London.

Rupert Woodfin was a lecturer in Philosophy. He died in 2005.

Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist and television producer, who has worked on religious programmes for the BBC. She is also the co-author, with Ziauddin Sardar, of the bestselling Why Do People Hate America? and American Dream, Global Nightmare.

Oscar Zarate is one of the UK’s leading graphic artists who has illustrated many Introducing titles. His graphic novel A Small Killing won the Will Eisner Prize.